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Kopfballer t1_jahgb4i wrote
Reply to comment by tahitithebob in [OC] Food waste around the world (kg/capita/year) by giteam
You can read the report here: https://www.unep.org/resources/report/unep-food-waste-index-report-2021
For african countries it is mainly estimates, but even if the estimation is like 20 or 30% off, it would still be way too much wasted food given the fact that many people don't even have enough food to survive.
Kopfballer t1_jaeeznp wrote
Reply to The European Hyperloop overtakes Elon Musk’s: 500 km of tunnels under Swiss soil by CelebrationDirect209
It is a great idea and all, but shouldn't we first use existing trains a lot more? There is so much untapped potential for much lower costs.
Hyperloops for passengers sound like a plan to replace domestic flights... which shouldn't exist in the first place. If you calculate in the time to get to the airport, security check, check-in, etc... it's faster to go by train in most cases, if train infrastructure became better, it would be even more in favor of rail.
So we don't have to replace domestic flights with hyperloops, just abolish them and use HSR?!
Actually I think the strength of Hyperloops could be freight transportation... iirc the Hamburg port wanted to build a prototype to ship containers from the port to outside the city very fast, which makes sense.
Kopfballer t1_jae90j2 wrote
Reply to I miss walking in to a record store and discuss music recommendations with the owner by MaybeTheDoctor
Same as people miss going to Blockbuster for rental movies+games or meeting friends before everyone had social media or even mobile phones and how generally so many things were better "back in the days".
Sorry, but you probably it's just nostalgia.
And as others said, there are still record shops, just a lot less of them.
Kopfballer t1_ix7tr0s wrote
Expats is the wrong word.
Definition of Expat:
>An expatriate (often shortened to expat) is a person who resides outside their native country.[1] In common usage, the term often refers to educated professionals, skilled workers, or artists taking positions outside their home country, either independently or sent abroad by their employers.
So those poor guys from India and Nepal dying on Qatari construction sites or who serve as slaves, are "educated professionals"?
Kopfballer t1_jahh0m1 wrote
Reply to [OC] Food waste around the world (kg/capita/year) by giteam
The numbers are from the UN, they should be correct.
Tbh I though it would be developed countries wasting the most, with the US on top, since our supermarkets and fridges always have to be full.
Poor african countries wasting so much is a bit shocking. Also China is pretty high in the ranking given their 1.4 billion inhabitants, in absolute numbers per country they probably waste as much as both americas+europe+oceania together.